Community action 4 public health
greener neighbourhoods that offer a connection with nature might actually reduce the health gap between rich and poor and lead to a better, more equal society.
Lucy Jones • Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
“Human rights' are meaningless if the ecosystems that sustain us do not have the legal right to exist.” Lucy Jones - Losing Eden
Losing Eden by Lucy Jones
A case for why connection to the wild is so important to our mental, physical, spiritual and community health.
The health of the human body is ultimately dependent on the health of habitat and community. And yet, this connection is almost universally ignored in modern health disciplines where biomedical reductionism rules the day. Human health and environmental preservation are treated as entirely different fields, with miles of empty space between them.
Frank Forencich • The Art is Long: Big Health and the New Warrior Activist
The small reflects the large, and the health of the whole system requires the flourishing of each part. When this principle of natural ecology is applied to human society, we see it as individual dignity and self-determination.
Jeremy Lent • What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?
Keeping Americans at or above a certain baseline of good health requires collective action to assure the availability of such necessities as food, housing, and transportation.
Elizabeth Bradley • The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less
The broad mission of public health is to “fulfill society’s interest in assuring conditions in which people can be healthy.” (p. 1)
CPH MPHTM MD Terry Dwelle • Introduction to Public Health: Promises and Practices
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